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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

It's Wanda here today on this beautiful Wednesday!! There is much to be thankful for and Suzanne's stamp set, Being Thankful, has some very important ones. I have combined stamps from that set along with the beautiful Thanks die to make this card.

I lined up all the stamps from the Being Thankful set that I wanted to use on an acrylic block and stamped them onto vellum using Archival Ink jet black. After drying the ink, I tore the vellum into a square around the words and inked the edges with Distress Ink mowed lawn.

The next layer is a sampler pack size piece of gold shimmer sheetz from the metallic pack. I inked over the piece with Alcohol inks (sunset orange, rust, raisin), embossed it with the curvy leaves ECD embossing folder, sanded it, inked the edges with Archival Ink jet black and heated the edges lightly allowing the shimmer sheetz to curl a bit. The piece of stamped vellum is attached to the shimmer sheetz using a tiny attacher just along the top edge and the rest is left lose.

For the next layer I used the curvy leaves embossing folder as a stamp. I inked the side of the folder with the raised leaves using Distress Ink (wild honey, barn door, spiced marmalade), lightly misted over it with water and then pressed it onto white cardstock. I repeated this to fill the cardstock and dried it. The edges are inked with Distress Ink mowed lawn.

Thanks is die cut from a black velvet adhesive sheet, attached directly onto the background as shown, and the shimmer sheets piece is attached with foam tape. Everything is attached to a folded rust colored card and then I added some black dots using a Glaze pen. The finished card measures 6 1/8" x 5 1/2".

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Although it's not time for snow yet it's always time to make up cards to send to friends. Today i have a card to share using the "We are like Snowflakes" stamp.

I wanted to do a little something different with the shape so i started with a card that had a scalloped edge on the bottom and the cut a piece of the Maja Design winter snowflake papers to fit. Then i layered lots of the other prints in both squares and die cuts. And a few white snowflakes too.

For the front i stamped it in Versafine ink and embossed with white embossing powder and glued
that on with 3D Foam squares. And just to add a little more glitz i put some small dots of diamond stickles around the border and on the snowflakes to make them shine. I love how it came out.

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you have a fun day stamping and creating something fun!

Monday, September 28, 2015

Hello everyone,
Yvonne here sharing an easy and quick to create project: a little photo frame with a Quietfire Design quote stamp. It's ment to be a little gift to comfort, encourage, remind or help someone....
Of course you could use any other quote stamp...Quietfire has so many gorgeous ones!

This cute little project is really easy to make.
I bought my plain wooden photo frame (mine is sized 3.25"x 4.5") and embellished it with some mulberry flowers, leaves, stamens and a little birdie ....that is all it took!
Just enough to keep all emphasis on the quote.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Yogi here today with, I think, a very involved card... BIG GRIN - but loving all the little details... if you're going to make something for a friend, shouldn't it be extra special...I'm using some of the newest cardstock on the Elizabeth Craft Designs website. Just fabulous "Soft Finish".
It's got a smooth side and a textured side. Both accept Pan Pastels
wonderfully. It's like silky velvet. WOW is all I can say... The flowers, Friends word (also available on Quietfire Design HERE), and bird are done on the textured side, the leaves on the smooth side. The cardstock reacts beautifully to tooling.

I scored and folded my brown cardstock to create the easel (see back below). Cut another piece of the brown cardstock for my front and covered it edge to edge with a brown on brown polka dotted scrapbook cardstock (Bo Bunny "Chocolate Dot"). Adhered it all to the front.

Inked up the Bark embossing folder with Distress "Ground Espresso", misted with water and ran through my machine. Repeated the process. Removed from folder, then sponged "Tea Dye" all over the high points. Folded the cardstock at the join of the 2 embossings and cut them apart with an x-acto knife, then spliced them together again. Unless you know they were spliced it is really hard to see...Used Spellbinders "Matting Basics "B" 5 x 7 die set to cut out the frame. Adhered to card front.

For the leaves, applied the Pan Pastels to the smooth side of the cardstock. It adhered beautifully... (see pastel background pic below). Die cut the leaves and used a small balled stylus to add veining, then touched areas with more pastels for contrasts. Hit the edges with a Versamark pad and embossed with Queen's Gold.Stamped the quote ("Keep Your Faith...") with Versafine Toffee and embossed with the gold.

Die cut the bird from the textured side of the white cardstock and also colored with the pastels, adding some black fine tipped marker lines in the wing and beak. Final touch added a very small black rhinestone for the eye.

The flowers were die cut from the textured side and colored with the pastels after die cutting. First with red in the centers and then with yellow on the edges, then tooled both on front and back with a large balled stylus on a foam mat. Adhered the leaves and flowers, then the glittered pearl centers adding a dab of Best Ever glue.Die cut the "Friends" (Friends word - also available on Quietfire Design HERE) from the textured side and colored with streaks of various Pan Pastel yellows (lightest on top and darker on the bottom). Scored a piece of the BoBunny cardstock to be the same height as the front edge around frame. Adhered the bottom edge of the word to the scored lip edge. Adhered the fold to the floor to act as the stopper.

On the easel floor arranged the birthday sentiments ("Happy Birthday Plain and Simple" 7pce set) on my stamping block and repeatedly stamped using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed.Stamped the quote ("Those who find...") on a scrap piece of the BoBunny paper using the Toffee and embossing with the gold. Hand cut a scrap piece of the bark background to create the frame and adhered the quote to the back, trimmed down excess. Adhered to floor with 3d foam tape.Tied a yellow silk bow and adhered to frame with hot glue.

Monday, September 21, 2015

I just can't get enough of this stamp- the design and the sentiment are beautiful!The card used patterned paper from Graphic 45's paper pad "Kraft Reflections". (The paper pad is available at the Quietfire store and is on sale right now for 30% off. Great price...especially if you are a U.S. customer because the Canadian dollar is quite a bit lower than the U.S.!)

The large Paris postage stamp and the butterfly were both cut from the patterned papers. The back side of one of the papers was stamped with the Friendship stamp and Archival ink in black.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Are you ready for some winter cards? There's a chill in the air in the mornings ... but still shorts weather by the afternoon. Typical here! :)

I made another CAS card using this gorgeous stamp by Quietfire Design: We are like Snowflakes. I stamped with a pigment ink and then clear embossed it.

I centered the sentiment and trimmed it with a cross-stitch die from My Favorite Things. The same silver metallic paper used for matting the layers was also used to cut snowflakes from Impression Obsession to make the background.

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Hi There!!! It's Wanda here today sharing an Autumn, thankful card. The Quietfire Design stamp I used is from the Give Thanks set.

To create my background I've used Distress Inks (barn door, worn lipstick, mustard seed, tea dye) and a stencil (TCW). I put barn door, worn lipstick and mustard seed on my craft sheet (just smooshed pad to craft sheet), sprayed the ink spots with water and dragged a piece of white cardstock through the ink. This was dried and then tea dye ink was added through the leaf stencil using a mini ink blending tool. The quote is stamped with Archival Ink jet black. Along the left side I put a piece of tissue tape wrapping it to the back and then I inked the edges with vintage photo Distress Ink. The leaf spray attached over the tissue tape is an Elizabeth Craft Designs die (leafy branch), die cut from manila cardstock, inked with embossing ink and embossed (red geranium and orange blossom embossing powders). Red twine was wrapped around the bottom with the ends taped to the back and a small twine bow made to go at the top of the spray. Everything is attached to a folded white card.